APPLE CIDER VINEGAR benefits are plentiful when added to your diet plan, according to the experts. How can the drink help with weight loss, skin problems and hair, and how should you take it?

What is apple cider vinegar?

Apple cider vinegar benefits include helping you to lose weight, as well as being beneficial to your skin and hair, experts have claimed.

Apple cider vinegar is a type of vinegar made from apples, which has a deep amber colour. Unpasturised versions of the vinegar have a cloudy appearance and are thought to have a number of health benefits.

The ingredient was originally used to make salad dressing and chutney, but recently other properties have been discovered.

Apple cider vinegar is made by squeezing the liquid from apples, which is then infused with yeast to ferment and created an alcohol.

It then goes through a second fermenting stage, which makes acetic acid and forms the liquid into a vinegar.

What are the benefits of apple cider vinegar?

Weight loss

The most popular use for apple cider vinegar is weight loss - so why does the drink help you to lose weight?

It is thought that the acid in the drink is what helps your body to shed the pounds. Scientists at the Department of Nutrition at Arizona State University found that drinking the drink before every meal can reduce the number of calories you eat over a day by up to 275.

Get rid of headaches

On its website, it explains: “Apple cider vinegar has plenty of potassium, which could also potentially help prevent migraines.”

To help with headaches drink the vinegar as a toddy with honey and hot water, soak a cloth in it and press it to your forehead or create a steam bath from boiling water with the vinegar in and hold your head over it to breath in the steam.